Since its inception, the port has been hobbled by shifting trade patterns, the collapse of the city’s steel industry, and penny-pinching by public and private operators.
Since 2019, the port has received $32.4 million in state, county and city funds to repair its transit sheds, roads and rail spurs.
To open up the port, Chico said he welcomed a successful effort by U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly to secure $844,800 in federal funds to plan a bike path near Lake Calumet. The crumbling port district dock at the mouth of the river threatens to inflame this legal battle because it butts up against the Army Corps landfill. If the dock falls apart completely, according to the port district, it could damage the landfill and cause “a collapse of dredged sediment contaminants” into the lake.
Neighborhood groups have since blocked the additional landfill sites the Army Corps wanted along the river. So now the Army Corps wants to keep using its so-called Confined Disposal Facility for another 20 years, and to build it higher. Any further delays mean the Army Corps will have to stop dredging, since it has no place else to put the river’s toxic sediments, Zdrojewski said. This could disrupt commercial shipping, he said, since sediments will continue to build up in the river.Anderson of Openlands hopes the lawsuit will force the Army Corps and the city of Chicago to consider other options.
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